Rill GETS SOME HELP Sevanty Pive Thousand to Be Expended at the Normal School OTHER DOINGS IN BOTH HOUSES Measures Now Finally Acted Upon From Day to pmCommitteos Behind with Their Work Miscellaneous Matters In Both Branches HOUSS The house on the 1st passed a bill to provide an appropria te of 76080 for constructing a li brary and gymnasium building for the normal school at Peru The meas ure yvas introduced by Representative Armstrong was favorably reported by the committee on normal schools and recommended for passage py the com mittee of the whole house Repre sentative Swansons bill authorizing tHe state treasurer to transfer the slaking fund of the state to the gen eral fund was also passed Reports of committees were received and on recommendation house roils 157 159 and 168 by Evans relating to the is Biianco of irrigation bonds house roll 9 by Hathorn fixing a penalty for il legal registration and voting and bouse roll 177 by Lane to create a state board of charities were plac...

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M J I V I N it v u M H Si 1 I I K i B T r t A - V T THE VALENTINE VOLUME XYI January Was A Winnner Help Us Make Februrary tneSame - What inducements have we to offer for your help Why the best ever of course This store never does anything half ways You know that if youve lived in this cornrnunit long whether you are a customer of ours or not Well when we started out to make 1901 our banner year we commenced the greatest campaign of progressive retailing ever seen hereabouts The re sult was a business record for January usually the dullest month in tho year Naturally we dont want to fall down in Februrary and we shall keep right on making this the most profitable place to buy every thing in merchancise Cash pricesfor next week 11 10 76 Grit mi Ited Sirgnr 25 lb of Prunes 8 bars Soap All Package Coffee HE OWL SALOON TSgkjgSs Si 00 lOO 25 12 2 THE RED FRONT CLOTHING Is our principal line and ordinarily we are proud of the fact that wre have the largest assortment in Cherry county but a...

yKWw 3rl - - The Valentine Democrat I M RICH Publisher VALENTINE NEBRASKA J BRIEf TELEGRAMS I The senate and house will both hold night sessions this month Col Albert Hartsuff assistant sur geon general has been retired The Colorado house has passed a bill providing for the electric chair The Princeton Ind Elevator com panys elevator was totally destroyed by fire Tom OBrien the Pittsburg clubs first baseman died of consumption at Phoenix Arls The cut nail pool announced an in crease in prices of 5c a keg to go into effect at once The Belgium King is said to be in danger a man having been arrested who had designs on his life A dispatch from Cincinnati says that hope of making the fight have been nearly abandoned Prof Salisbury for a quarter of a century an authority on Sanscript in Yale college is dead in his 87th year The blast furnaces of the Lorain O Steel company have resumed oper ations after an idleness of over six months Edward Hopkins who was organist of the Temple church Lon...

Kil W J r v i w ll hi IT i I M I n rj u i i r 1 i IJ hf t i n I T A x6e Bondmaa By HALL CAINE CHAPTER IX Continued At this evidence there was a deep murmur among the people and it was seen that Greeba had risen again to her feet Her heart burned and stormed within her Sne tried to speak jbut could not At the same moment Jason turned his bloodshot eyes in her direction and then her limbs gave way under her and she sank back with a moan The court misread her emotion and she was re moved Jasons red eyes followed her constantly This is a case for the Warning not lor punishment said the bishop It is plainly written in our old law book that if a man threaten to slay another man he shall he warned of the gravity of the crime he contem plates and of the penalty attaching to it Gracious heavens my lord cried the little spokesman what reason have we to assume that his prisoner is ignorant of either With a life to guard that is prized by friends and precious to the state shall we let this man ...

-- - - THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT I M RICE EAY1NQ1TSDEBTS EDITOR Official Newspaper of Cherry County Nvbriha This paper will be mailed regularly to its aubooribers until a definite order to discontinue is received and all ar rears are paid in full TERMS Subscription 100 per year in advanoo Sl50 when not paid in advance iigplay advertising 1 inch 15c per issue Goc per month 4 issues 500 per year in advance Local Kofices 5c per lino each issue Brands IVi inches 8400 per year in ad viire additional ppaceS300 per inch peryrar engraved blocks extra 3100 each Parties living outside Cherry county not per sonally known are requested to pay in advance 10 per cent additional to above rates if over G months in arrears Notices of loss of stock free to brand adver tisers Thursday February 14 1901 Still doth the busy bushy Boer im prove each shining hour lie freks the veldr gives to Jhon Bull a welt and deli es the British power From kopjes tall speeds Ins rifle ball and a red coac bites the dust By ...

w M J V 4 1 w a 1 I n fir i if 4 n M V A A- fait THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAf M MOtlRISSKY I M RICE EDITOR The claim of other cough remedies to oe as good as Chamberlains are effect ually set at rest in the following testi A ITrifxMful Jtlmulcr Will often cause a horrible Burn Scald Cut or ttruise Bucklens Arni da Salye will kill the pain and prompt ly heal it Cures Fever Sores Ulcers Boils Corns all Skin Fruptions Best Pile cure on earth Only 25c a box Cure guaranteed Sold by Elliott ISlff Poultry Paper lree Just for a short time to iutroduce The Semi Weekly State Journal that paper will send The Western Poultry News a year free to anyone sending 1 00 for a years subscription to the j Semi Weekly State Journal which is published every Tuesday and Friday gives all the news of the world days ahead of farm papers and weeklies It si a newspaper from start to finish and it thepaper for the farmer A great many readers call it the farmers daily One dollar gets the Journal twice -a-week a whole ...

rrntmitf aJytaMMfTB Htiynumntaivt Will OF LEGISLATURE Senatorial Deadlock Has Tendency to De lay Business SOME BILLS HAVE BEEN PASSED New fileasares Being Introduced from Day to Day State Board of Agricul ture Resolutions Relating to County Fairs Miscellaneous Blatters HOUSE When the house was call ed to order on the 8th Sprecher of Colfax waived a reconsideration of the vote whereby house roll 90 by tyllcox -to require the union label on all -state contract printing was in definitely postponed After discussion the motion to reconsider was defeated by a vote of 44 ayes to 41 nays it re quiring a two thirds vole to carry The following bills were also read for the third time and placed on their passage House roll No 75 for the relief of a person owning real pro erty having an insane husband or wife and to empower such person to sell mortgage or convey such prop erty under power of the district court With the emergency clause attachment the bill was defeated by a vote of 57 yeas to 33 ...

M f i i L s n 1 Ul t V A W M J a- n t i i i i y i T2 Stingy Kxpotltlon Visitors It Is a remarkable fact that any one ward in Philadelphia you might al most say any division of one ward contributes more to charity in one week than the Paris exposition did during its entire run said a young man of the Quaker city who has just returned from the French capital When the exposition was opened boxes were placed all through the grounds embellished with signs in va rious languages setting forth the fact that the contents would be devoted to charity Millions of people visited the exposition and must have seen these boxes for they were conspicuously displayed They were not examnled until after the close of the exposition and how much do you suppose they all contained Less than 12 Thats a fine record for charity isnt it It Is always safe to learn even from our enemies Colton n Good deeds and kind words are nev er lost Remedy for Grip Sufferer Garfield Tea cleanses the system purifies the blood ...

ET M m m 3 IV i i i i i tty t w M t fl M h i 4 u L A 4 V -9 c sji I N C7i V7SP THE VOLUME XVI - -- tvrs Is our principal line and ordinarily we are - proud of the fact that we have the largest assortment in Cherry county but at present we are sorry to say that we have TOO BIG A STOCK Especially of Winter goods owing to mild weather and in order to reduce it we are making discounts on heavy goods amounting in some instances to 50 per cent DSTINARD C H CORNELdL President or err a- V V Jtt V ftTIftiOJLSg Cashier ANK OF VALENTINE Valentine Nebraska A General Banking KuNinews Transacted Buy and Sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange hemical National Bank New York torrPNponclctitM First National Bank Omaua Net ZTZZZZZTZZJTJZZZK We Handle All Kir ds Leave orders with Frank Fischer or call at Lud wigs old stand 3gBraSS2bZSr2 t3 I xoos eaoiocH Ctt o HEADQUARTERS FOR WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS QF THE CHOICEST BRANDS Valentine - - Nebraska HE OWL SALOON T A- YEARNSHAW JAMES B- HULL ooie Agents lor ...

nJ The Valentine Democrat I M RICH Publisher VALENTINE NEBRASKA I BRIEf TELEGRAMS I Dr C H Poucher committed suicide at Swanton Neb by taking prussic acid Emperor William has conferred upon Lord Roberts the Order of the Black Eagle the highest German oration Charles E Emerson president of the jEmerson Lumber company of Dixon 111 died aged 73 years He leaves a large estate In the state of Guerrero Mex a sharp shock of earthquake caused much alarm A light shock was felt in Mexico City Countess Castellane has sold to her brother Edwin Gould her interest in the New York realty left by their father for 43500 - The officials of the British home of iflce say there is no foundation what ever for the report that Mrs Florence Maybrick has been pardoned A bill was introduced in the Illinois house providing that all persons here after sentenced to death shall be ex ecuted by means of electricity Mrs John Beatty a wealthy widow twelve miles north of Beardstown 111 committed suicide by drowning i...

I if i1 M U K 5 Kl i t ut -I i i 4 1 f 171 I f 33S3333 ta6e Bondman By HALL CAINE CHAPTER IX Continued It was intended that Jason should start for the Sulphur Mines on the fol lowing day and he was lodged over vi night in a little house of detention that stood on the south of the High street But the snow continued to fall the whole night through and in the morning the roads were impassable Then it was decided to postpone the Jong journey until the storm should have passed the frost set in and the desolate white waste to be crossed be come hard and firm It was now Wed nesday of the second week in October the Gore month and the people were already settling down to the long xest of the Icelandic winter The mer chants began to sleep the livelong day in their deserted stores in the cheap stead and the bonders who had come up with the last of their stock to drink and doze in the taverns All that day the snow fell in dust like flour until white as it was the air grew dark with it At the la...

- L ft Mr C v- jx THE VALENTINE DEM0GRA1 1 f I M RICEf EDITOR OfficlaX Newspaper of Cherry- County Nebraska This paper will be mailed regular to ita suboeribers until a definite ordr y to discontinue is received and all ar arrears are paid in full j TERMS I- Subscription Sl00 per year In advance 150 j when not jiald In advance jisplay advertising I Inch ice per Issue Doc per month 4 Issues S300 per year In advance Local Notices 5c per line each issue Brands lii inches 4 CO per var In t vance nnrtltfnnalpaoeS3 00 per Inch perir engraved blocks extra 100 each Parties living outside Cherry county not ppr sanally known are requested to pay in advance 10 per cent additional to above rates If ov G month in arrears Notices of loss of stock free Users to brand advei Thursday February 21 1901 f Our people are anxiously waiting for that wave of McKinley prosperity tlnt has been due for soraw time Is M t Kinley the ruler or Mark liatina th - prophet to for e us w hile k oking al ter the ship s...

I SHU CHOICE Both Houses Vote Daily But Changes Ara Slight TfiE fliimt IS NOT PROMISING Senate Passes a Measure Dealing With Kidnapers Bills Put Through in the House Record c2 Baalncss In Both Branches HOUSE The only business trans acted In the house on the morning of the 15th was the adoption of standing committee reports placing a number of bills on general file House roll 52 by Dahlsten providing that county at torneys shall be elected only in coun ties of more than 3000 population in other counties to be appointed by the county commissioners at a salary of not to exceed 300 per year was rec ommended for passage Loomis or Dodge called up his resolutions of Tuesday last commemorative of the life and services of Hon Samuel Max well and spoke eloquently and feeling ly of the virtues and deeds of the dead jurist and statesman His re marks were attentively listened to and produced a deep impression Mc Carthy of Dixon also -paid tribute of respect to Judge Maxwells long and distinguish...

loA J H rl J h i U 1 1 rj i i t A K y 4L THANKFUL TO Mrs PINKHAM Letters Proving Positively that there is No Medicine for Womans Ills Eqnal to Lydia E Pinkhams I Vegetable Compound fc tffgtWffiJHWMMM OssssOv H MRS ANNIE THOMP5QN AM LETTERS JLltB PUBLISHED BY BPECIAL PEBMISSIOK information as to reduced railway rates can be Had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration Department of Interior Ottawa Canada or to W V Bennett 801 N Y WfO Bldf Omaha Neb illustrated losrue t 1 14 w I HI FFi rNEW DISCOVERY gives cases Book of testimonials and 10 DATS treatment ntSE DE H n GBEESS 9058 Box E Atlicta G I cannot say enough in regard to Lydia B Pinkhams Vegetable Compound It has done me more good than all the doctors I have heen troubled with female weakness in its worst form for about ten years I had leucorrhoea and was so weak that I could not do my housework I also had falling of the womb and inflammation of the womb and ovaries and at menstrual periods I suffered terribly At times...

I IK A i to I i i M M tI rt t i i i ti i t r N Ss i i 7 t 5 w le e lis r S JL ft K j 3C - Jf II1 t GET YOUR PRINTING AT THIS OFFICER Wc Cn Satisfy- You in Quality Price snd WcrtofisJiip - MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJ 4 49 49 4 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 1901 is Breaking sjfc The sales record at this store Our largest sales for January and February occurred this year We state this not in a spirit of boastfnlness but as an evidence that a very large number of the good people of this community look to this store to supply their dry goods needs Would they do so if they did not find it to their advantage to trade here Most assuredly not In all our business history it has been our constant business aim to 3onduct a store that would win business on a business basis to make buying here as profitable to our customers as it is to us These money saving prices prove that we are successful in putting this policy into prac...